PFC Ludogorets Razgrad II

Foundation

In the beginning of 2015, the Bulgarian Football Union discussed the idea to add the reserve sides of several A Group clubs in the B Group or in the lower regional divisions. Ludogorets Razgrad, Litex Lovech, Levski Sofia, CSKA Sofia, Cherno More Varna and Botev Plovdiv expressed such interest to have a team in the B Group. At the beginning of June 2015, the BFU announced that only Litex and Ludogorets have sent such applications. Eventually, Ludogorets II and Litex II were added to the 2015-16 B Group.

2015–present: Second League

The team finished on 7th position in their first season. The team started the 2016–17 season precariously and finished in the religation zone on the half season. That why on 12 January 2017 team announced Radoslav Zdravkov, a Bulgarian football legend and also constant assistant coach in the Bulgarian national team recent age.^[1] 2 days later from Ludogorets announced that in order to get better results from second team, they would apply big changes. Radoslav Zdravkov was announced as a headcoach with Galin Ivanov and Marcelo Chagas for assistants and one other Bulgarian legend, Spas Dzhevizov, was announced as a selectionist, and will look after for youth talents from Ludogorets Academy and other academies to join the team.^[2]

On 29 March 2017 the new youth stadium, Eagles' Nest was finished and the second team would play on it. The stadium have 2,000 seats.^[3]

From the 2017–18 season Ludogorets change the politic about the second team by taking the decision to play with only youth players of the club in the Bulgarian Second League.^[4] The team started the season against Lokomotiv Sofia and beat them with 2:1 result with a team average age being 19 years. ^[5]

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 23 DF Ventsislav Kerchev (at Botev Vratsa until 30 June 2019) 98 MF Svetoslav Kovachev (at Dunav Ruse until 30 June 2019)

Manager history

Dates	Name	Honours
2015	Veselin Branimirov
2015–2017	Galin Ivanov
2017–	Radoslav Zdravkov

Current technical body

Position	Name	Nationality
Selectionist	Spas Dzhevizov
Head Coach	Radoslav Zdravkov
Assistant Coach	Galin Ivanov
Assistant Coach	Todor Zhivondov
Goalkeeper coach	Harry Kazakov
Physiotherapist	Stoyan Aleksiev
Physiotherapist	Mustafa Inol
Doctor	Orlin Simov
Administrator	Nikolay Tsonev

B Group/Second League matches

As of 13 May 2018

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Years	Matches	Goals
1	Bulgaria	Oleg Dimitrov	2015–	71	4
2	Bulgaria	Denislav Aleksandrov	2015–	62	13
3	Bulgaria	Tomas Tsvyatkov	2015–2018	57	9
4	Bulgaria	Svetoslav Kovachev	2015–	54	10
5	Bulgaria	Preslav M. Petrov	2015–	51	4
6	Bulgaria	Ivaylo Klimentov	2015–	50	3
7	Bulgaria	Antonio Georgiev	2015–2017	43	2
–	Bulgaria	Preslav I. Petrov	2015–2017	43	1
9	Bulgaria	Kristiyan Grigorov	2016–2017	40	4
10	Bulgaria	Daniel Naumov	2016–	37	0

• Players in bold are still playing for Ludogorets.

B Group/Second League goals

As of 13 May 2018

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Years	Matches	Goals
1	Bulgaria	Denislav Aleksandrov	2015–	62	13
2	Bulgaria	Yanaki Smirnov	2015–2016	28	11
3	Bulgaria	Svetoslav Kovachev	2015–	54	10
4	Bulgaria	Tomas Tsvyatkov	2015–2018	57	9
5	Bulgaria	Tsvetelin Chunchukov	2015–2017	31	8
6	Bulgaria	Mihail Aleksandrov	2015–2016	6	4
–	Brazil	Juninho Quixadá	2015–2018	7	4
–	Brazil	Lucas Sasha	2015–	8	4
—	Bulgaria	Slavcho Shokolarov	2016–2017	26	4
—	Bulgaria	Aleksandar Vasilev	2015–2018	28	4

• Players in bold are still playing for Ludogorets.